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Extracts

by Matt on 17. Dec, 2008 in origins

(Supplied by a Sub-Sub-Librarian.)   “Perhaps the greatest of all pedagogical fallacies is the notion that a person learns only the particular thing he is studying at the time. Collateral learning in the way of formation of enduring attitudes, of likes and dislikes, may be and often is much more important than the spelling lesson [...]

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Grounds for Departure

by Matt on 16. Dec, 2008 in origins

Though neither knows where lie the nameless things of which the mystic sign gives forth such hints; yet with me, as with the colt, somewhere those things must exist. Though in many of its aspects this visible world seems formed in love, the invisible spheres were formed in fright. But not yet have we solved [...]

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